Goswin Brederlow writes: > I don´t like the > alphabetic sorting. Its hard to find something you don´t know the > exact name of.
Hm... often "ls */*pattern*" in lftp was needed and sufficient for me with current section-based layout. I'm not sure how worse would be alphabetic sorting. > Any frontend can just ignore the archive structure and use the info > from the packages files alone. Yes. > I think that even if the nature is > encoded onto the archive via the directory structure, that info should > still not be erased from the packages file, Sure ! > so the archive structure > doesn´t offer more information than the packages files (or the control > files of a package), but helps people finding their way through the > archive. Yes, I agree that info derivable from the archive layout should be present in the Package file. But this constraint does not throw out alphabetic sorting by itself ;) Regards, -- Yann.
